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S C O T T R A Y N O R
Blink-182's ex-drummer
Born in May 1979 in CA
Has a girlfriend, Jordan
Resides in San Diego, CA
Biography
Scott
Raynor was the drummer for Blink 182 for every CD before "Enema
of
the State". He
was part of "Chesire Cat", "Dude Ranch", and
all other demos,
including "Buddha" and "Flyswatter". Scott
left the band after "Dude
Ranch" to go back to college and earn his degrees. Despite
many
rumors, Scott was by no means kicked out of Blink 182. In fact,
he
now plays with a local band and is supported by the members of
Blink
182.
Interview
of Scott
When seventeen-year-old Scott Raynor, drummer in the Poway,
California-based Blink, first thought about
playing in a rock band, it was pure fantasy. He and a few of his
grade- school buddies imagined forming
a heavy-metal group and each chose an instrument to play.
"I was in fourth grade, sitting on the swings with my friends,"
remembers Raynor. "We were all into MetaUica
and stuff like that. We decided to make up a band, and everyone
else got the good parts- guitars
and vocals. I was stuck with playing drums.
"I eventually started taking
lessons and learned to play. When I was in sixth grade, I was
really into metal
and hessian rock. Then I started getting into punk a few years
ago. Now, I like a lot of jazz drummers,"
Raynor says, sitting in the kitchen at the Rancho Bernardo, California
home of Blink singer/bassist
Mark Hoppus. To concentrate on the band, Raynor recently moved
in with Hoppus' family after
spending a year in Reno, Nevada.
A few years after his initial bit of make-believe, Raynor met
singer/guitarist Tom Delonge, now nine- teen,
at an eighth-grade party. The two decided to form a band and searched
for a bassist until finding
Hoppus. Blink released its debut, Cheshire Cat, last year and
is currently writing new material for an
album due in April 1996 (yeah, try june '97 - they were just a
bit off). Atlantic Records and Interseope
Records have expressed interest in signing Blink, and the band
will tour with Pennywise this November.
Like Green Day, Blink writes uptempo songs about raging hormones;
songs like "Carousel" and "Does My
Breath Smell?" are devoted to failed attempts for attention
from the opposite sex. "Our songs are pretty
much about toilet humor and girls," Raynor says. "I
like bands that are political, but it's kind of cool
to be in a band that is just jolting around and having fun. Sometimes
I think we might be a little offensive,
but we're not serious. We're not racist, prejudiced, or sexist.
We're just three guys jolting around
and having fun."
Although Blink displays its propensity for fun on Cheshire Cat,
the band also shows signs of maturation.
The songs "Sometimes" and "Cacophony" deal
with classic punk themes of alienation and despair.
In "Cacophony," vocalists Delonge and Hoppus explore
their inner fears: "Words like for-ever, they
scare the shit out of me. Maybe I'm afraid of commitment."
The song's sicerity presents a welcome contrast
with other tracks on Cheshire Cat.
While he disagrees with some of the comparisons critics have made
between Blink and other punk bands,
Raynor admits Blink is still trying to find an identity.
Raynor explains, "We get compared to NOFX a lot, and I really
don't see the similarity. NOFX is one of the
forerunners of punk music in America, and all punk bands sound
a little like them, but I don't think we
really do. Mark [Hoppus] plays chords like Ned's Atomic Dustbin,
and Tom [Delonge] was influenced by
the Descendants and a lot of East Bay punk. I guess all bands
combine different styles, but I think we're
starting to develop our own stvle."
Although Raynor intends to finish high school by pursuing "home
studies," he hasn't written college out
of his life.
"I'm definitely going to go to college, and eventually [I'll]
grow up and get a real job," Raynor says. "Even
if the band becomes really big, there's no saying how long it
will last. I want to make good music, but
I don't want to miss out on other opportunities. I'm already missing
out on my senior year of high school.
Besides, I don't want to be 30 and still in a punk-rock band.
That seems kind of scary to me." -J.N.
Also see:
 Pictures
of Scott
The
Scott Story
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